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Product Description ------------------- DVD Special Features Disc One: Episodes: Judgement, Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been, First Impressions, Untouched Commentary for Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been Disc Two: Episodes: Dear Boy, Guises Will Be Guises, Darla, The Shroud Of Rahmon Script For Darla Disc Three: Episodes: The Trial, The Reunion, Redefinition "Making Up The Monsters" Featurette, Stills Gallery, Set Blueprints, "Inside the Agency" Featurette Disc Four: Episodes: Blood Money, Happy Anniversary, The Thin Dead Line, Reprise Disc Five: Episodes: Epiphany, Disharmony, Dead Again, Belonging Script for "Disharmony" Disc Six: Episodes: Over The Rainbow, Through The Looking Glass, There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb Commentary for "Over The Rainbow", Season 2 Overview Featurette, "Stunts" Featurette, Season One DVD trailer, Cast Biographies .co.uk Review ------------- It is with this second series that Angel, the darker Los Angeles mean-streets spin-off from Buffy, comes entirely into its own. Angel, the vampire with a soul and rather too much hair gel, is driven partly by his need for atonement and partly by his anger at the manipulations of the satanic law firm Wolfram and Hart, especially the morally equivocal Lindsey (Christian Kane). At the end of the previous season, they set his emotional destruction in motion by bringing back from hell Darla, the vampire who turned him, whom he loved for centuries and then killed to save Buffy. Julie Benz's soft-voiced passion--"God doesn't want you, but I still do"--makes her a perfect tragic foil for David Boreanaz's "billowy coat King of Pain" hero and mid-season offers further cause for Angel's despairing rage at his failure to save Darla from being turned vampire again. There is a nice balance of comedy, horror and the starkly tragic here--fake swamis, accursed shrouds, sexually abused telekinetic assassins all come into the mix along with Angel's gang of sidekicks--pedantic Wesley, abrasive n, flighty clairvoyant Cordelia--and a new and wonderfully improbable character who starts as a running joke and becomes so much more--the Host (Andy Hallett), a green demon with red horns, eyes and hair, who sees into the souls of those who sing karaoke at his bar. And in a four-part finale, the group's friendship with the green karaoke demon Lorne sends them off to his home dimension to rescue Cordelia, right wrongs and acquire an important new character. On the DVD: Angel, Season 2 on disc presents all the episodes in their original 16x9 widescreen format (2.35:1), which enables viewers to see s as they were originally conceived, for example in impressive moments like the march of the four vampires through a burning Shanghai or the climaxes of the mediaeval Pylea sequence. The sound is a sumptuous Dolby Surround 2.0. The first Pylea episode, "Over the Rainbow", has a commentary by its director Fred Keller; the 1959 flashback episode "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?" has a commentary by writer Tim Minnear. There are also featurettes on the set designs--specifically concentrating on the huge hotel set which dominates Season 2. --Roz Kaveney